Caribbean tsunami warning issued after Haiti quake

AFP/YahooNews | 1/12/10

[cll]

Pics are coming in to a San Juan newspaper:

[hellbender]

Here’s a good site on Mt. Pelee and the eruption, with a great picture of the amazing lava dome which formed after the eruption. Oddly enough, the volcano goddess of Hawaii is called Pele.

[hellbender]

Oops. Forgot to post the link to Mt. Pelee:

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Pelee.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rdl6989! The earlier topic about the quake itself got a little surly, so I'm pinging this topic instead and here's a link to the other:

• Major magnitude 7.3 quake hits Haiti - USGS (Breaking!)

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[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping, Civ.

[rdl6989]

Prayers for your family and all the people in Haiti. My mother has a friend who went to Haiti several times in the 1980’s to do missionary work. They happened to be there when Baby Doc was overthrown.

[Petronski]

Word came in my family is perfectly fine. Trinidad is (thankfully) too far away.

[halo66]

I think it was Mt. Pelée. Not 100% sure, though.

[FReepaholic]

Click on the photos for larger images

[FReepaholic]

More images:

http://www.news.com.au/pictures/gallery-e6frflv9-1225818791265?page=1

[FReepaholic]

From a person in Haiti on Twitter:

InternetHaiti: RT @carelpedre: It's Sad! The Country didn't need that at this time! We are devastated!!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Good Lord!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

We’re safe in San Juan. I was in traffic when it hit so I didn’t feel a thing and I haven’t heard any reports that it was felt here at all.

Thanks for the report, cll. Please refer to post #17 in this thread and look at that map of tremors and quakes around P.R. in the past week. Quite frightening. The Puerto Rico Trench scares me. If there's a huge magnitude quake in the trench, sort of like the Banda Aceh quake of '04, it will wipe the top half of the island. It's simply frightening.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Thanks for the map link.

Very, very frightening.

My entire family lives near Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[FReepaholic]

ayitilokal: PAP: R Latortue spoke with First Lady Elizabeth Préval "tell the World the President is OK. Haitian Palace is damaged" http://bit.ly/5mDdjG

[buschbaby]

Found live skype radio talking to people in Haiti, lots of first hand information being shared and recapped.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pierrecote#utm_campaign=twitter.com&utm_source=754733&utm_medium=social

also photos at http://caissy.ca/2010/first-pictures-powerful-earthquake-strikes-haiti/

sorry for no formatting, hurrying to post.

[FReepaholic]

InternetHaiti: RT @cat_laine: Haiti quake: UN Headquarters collapsed. (confirmed) #Haiti #HaitiQuake

[b4its2late]

One hell of a quake. Wonder how long it will take the world to respond?

[rdl6989]

JUST IN -- AP: Haiti capital largely destroyed in quake; casualties severe and widespread. @AlBoeNEWS